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Love at first sight on Klapparstígur

From Morgunblaðið · () Icelandic

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  • Austrian traveler Romana Obermair has become a familiar presence at Bókin, a secondhand bookshop on Klapparstígur in Reykjavík.
  • She lives with the shop’s owner, Ari Gísli Bragason, and describes travel as a form of education through different cultures, history, literature, art and music.

Romana Obermair has become a familiar face among book lovers visiting Bókin, the secondhand bookshop on Klapparstígur in Reykjavík. She is the partner of the shop’s owner, Ari Gísli Bragason.

Speaking from a corner of the store, Obermair describes herself as someone who spent years traveling the world after university. For her, travel offered another kind of education, a way to understand different cultures through the people she met, as well as through history, literature, art and music.

During those years, she also co-founded an internet company that has operated successfully for more than 20 years.

After university, I traveled around the world for many years. Travel was another form of education, a way to understand different cultures through the people, history, literature, art and music.

· Romana ObermairShe explains how her years of travel shaped her understanding of different cultures.
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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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